Dog-Eared and Dispatched: September 6, 2015

This week we bring you updates in the form of fun and unexpected footnotes – plus a few industry surprises. Marvel announces plans for an upcoming series, TED-Ed brings Whitman to life, and Harry Potter might just be a villain. What?! Ready? Set? Read!

Footnotes

As you will recall, publishers spent much of 2014 renegotiating their contracts with Amazon, desiring to set higher prices for ebooks; they succeeded. Unfortunately, with the new higher prices, ebook sales fell to 24 percent of sales (down from 29% percent) – perhaps because the publisher-set ebook prices are so close to Amazon’s discounted hardcover prices that consumers find ebooks the less tempting option. The sales slump has contributed to a 7.8% decline in book sales during the first half of 2015 compared to 2014.

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